Online support materials for schools

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Overview

Did you know that Drosophila can bring life into your biology lessons not only in the context of classical genetics and Punnett squares? and can be used as a modern teaching tool for many curriculum-relevant specifications, such as evolution, nervous system and vision, enzymes, organs, life cycle and even statistics? See the “Learning Resources” tab, and see a brief overview here .

For the underlying rationale and the ways in which these lessons were developed and can be implemented, see the “Why fly?” and “Home” tabs. We can support you and help you make biology lessons fly in the classroom:

We can visit you and present at your school or host you at University (see our list of school visits below).

We can provide you with flies and fly food for your classes; see details here about what we provide and check out the schools we provided with materials already.

You can download all teaching materials for free, including simple experiments that fascinate pupils at all ages, and links are provided under our “Learning Resources” tab which also provides support information for teacher preparation, homework tasks or revisions.

If you have ideas for the development of teaching resources that are curriculum-relevant and involve fly, please, get incontact.